WHAT: Coming together to combine the perspective of regional UAS personnel and the insight of industry leaders, the 10th annual UAS Summit and Expo will be held in Grand Forks, N.D. on August 22-24. Joining other UAS industry experts, Kevin Gallagher, president and CEO of Simulyze, Inc., a leading provider of operational intelligence (OI) technology and applications, will speak on a panel titled “Perfecting The National Air Space: Situational Awareness And Detect-And-Avoid Breakthroughs.” Gallagher will also discuss how streamlining the process to analyze large streams of data from disparate sources can further support safer flights for drones and UAVs in both local and the national air space.

WHO: Kevin Gallagher is the president and CEO of Simulyze, Inc., a leading provider of operational intelligence (OI) and technology applications that empower both federal and commercial organizations to make better, more strategic decisions in real time. With more than 30 years of experience in system engineering and operational support, Gallagher co-founded Simulyze in 2000 to specialize in the handling and management process of real-time data and providing a complete operational view of workflow data.

As a leading expert in OI and situational awareness technology for intelligence and military operations, Gallagher has a proven track record of engineering the architecture, implementing the system and providing operational support to various U.S. government and military organizations. He and his team have provided support to the operations team for the situational awareness system at the Air Force Watch Center in the Pentagon, which was built in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University and his master’s degree in computer science from Villanova University.

About Simulyze, Inc.

Simulyze, Inc. is a leading provider of operational intelligence (OI) technology and applications that empower both federal and commercial organizations to make better, more strategic decisions in real-time. Built on its OI platform, Simulyze’s flagship product, Mission Insight™, is the industry’s leading, commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) application that makes complete situational awareness easy to attain and easy to deploy. It processes and analyzes large streams of data from disparate sources to provide air, land and sea operators, commanders and managers with a common operating picture (COP) in a customized graphical interface. Since 2000, Simulyze’s OI technology has been deployed across numerous organizations worldwide, including the U.S. military/Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. intelligence community, commercial UAS applications and homeland security. For more information, visit http://www.simulyze.com or follow on Twitter @Simulyze.